Did you know that there's a Tory candidate that believes gay people can be cured by prayer? She's a good Christian apparently so that kind of thinking is perfectly acceptable. In fact so acceptable is Stroud that she's been working closely with Cameron on issues around the family. Of course it would be THE FAMILY (by which the Tories mean married hetrosexuals. Remember if you ain't got a certificate your not a FAMILY.)
This isn't the place for me to rant about why Christians seem to fixate so much on what the Old Testament says and ignore the New Testament. After all Jesus seems to have forgotten to mention the gay thing, even though it is really important. Nor is it a place to rant about how homophobia seems to be the acceptable prejudice in this country.
No, what I want to know is why almost all the press are silent on this topic. Do they think that nutty Christian prayer groups helping 'the mentally disturbed' are OK? Do they think that homophobia is OK? Perhaps they do. I wouldn't put anything past James Murdoch and his compadres.
Of course we all know why they don't want to cover it. Because it is an embarrassment to cuddly Dave Cameron and his 'new' Conservatives. No one wants to remind people that the Tories are the party of Clause 28. The party that represents the Britain of the 1950s, not the Britain of the 21st century.
So not a whisper on Phillipa Stroud from the Sun, The Mail, the Express, the Times, the Telegraph, Sky or the BBC*. Hands up who is surprised?
*And don't get me started on the pathetic rolling over of the BBC in this election pushing the Lib-Dem + Tory agenda's. Anyone who thinks the BBC has a left-wing agenda should now shut the fuck up.
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